Keeping with the Tacoma streetcar motif, here’s a photo of a “Pagoda Station” in Tacoma, courtesy of that Streetcar Guy’s flickr pool. There are other great shots of Tacoma, including this one of old streetcar there in the same pool. Over at Vintage Seattle there’s a scan of an old postcard that features streetcars running on Pacific Avenue in Tacoma. You can find more old photos of Tacoma here at B Nagurski’s flickr pool, a couple of which feature the interurban stations in them.
Thanks for posting this.
It’s occurred to me on more than one occasion that the transit system we have in Tacoma pales in comparison with what we once had 80 years ago.
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=113978517249812573494.00000111c493fa0e07aff&ll=47.254417,-122.449236&spn=0.040722,0.077248&t=h&z=14
Absolutely true.
That’s awesome. Is the pagoda still there? And what’s the status on Tacoma streetcars? Anyone know any details on the ST2 Tacoma Link streetcar extensions studies?
It’s very much still there!
http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/page.php?id=62
I love the Tacoma parks I’ve visited. I wish Seattle did as good a job developing their parks and maintaining them.
Seattle did a good job developing parks like Volunteer, Good Sheperd, etc. but has done a so-so job of maintaining them and keeping them nice.